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Meet Eric Lingaur, Communications and Development Director for the Bay Area Transportation Authority
By Shared-Use Mobility Center
Sep 23, 2022
Revised March 2025 On May 16, 2022, the Shared-Use Mobility Center hosted the first Mobility Innovation Collaborative workshop. At this workshop, we had a chance to speak with Integrated Mobility Innovation (IMI) and Accelerating Innovative Mobility (AIM) grantees. This was a great opportunity t...
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Meet Katherine Conrad, Director at NEORide
By Shared-Use Mobility Center
Sep 23, 2022
Revised March 2025 On May 16, 2022, the Shared-Use Mobility Center hosted the first Mobility Innovation Collaborative workshop. At this workshop, we had a chance to speak with Integrated Mobility Innovation (IMI) and Accelerating Innovative Mobility (AIM) grantees. This was a great opportunity t...
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Meet Jesse Elam, Strategic Planning and Policy Director at Cook County Department of Transportation Highways
By Shared-Use Mobility Center
Sep 23, 2022
Revised March 2025 On May 16, 2022, the Shared-Use Mobility Center hosted the first Mobility Innovation Collaborative workshop. At this workshop, we had a chance to speak with Integrated Mobility Innovation (IMI) and Accelerating Innovative Mobility (AIM) grantees. This was a great opportunity t...
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SUMC’s Fireside Chat with FTA Acting Associate Administrator Mary Leary
By Shared-Use Mobility Center
Sep 20, 2022
Revised March 2025 Introduction On September 8, 2022, the Shared-Use Mobility Center (SUMC) hosted a fireside chat between Benjie de la Peña, SUMC CEO, and Mary Leary, Acting Associate Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Office of Research, Demonstration, and Innova...
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A Recap of Medicaid Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) Listening Sessions
By The Shared-Use Mobility Center and National Aging & Disability Transportation Center
Sep 7, 2022
Revised March 2025 Background Photo credit: NRTAP Marketing Toolkit This blog post gives an overview of Medicaid NEMT service and also summarizes the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) sponsored listening sessions that allowed mobility providers and stakeholders to provide f...
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Reflections on Mobility Innovation with Karina Ricks
By Shared-Use Mobility Center
Sep 1, 2022
Revised March 2025 On May 16, 2022, the Shared-Use Mobility Center hosted the first Mobility Innovation Collaborative workshop. At this workshop, we had a chance to discuss transportation with the then Associate Administrator for Research, Demonstration, and Innovation at the Federal Transit Adm...
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Encompass: Enhancing Mobility for Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities
By Greater Hartford Transit District
Jul 21, 2022
Revised March 2025 Introduction In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Greater Hartford Transit District (the “District”) provides transportation services for individuals who, because of their disability, are unable to travel on the fixed-route public transit se...
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Recognizing and Adapting to Changes in Partnerships
By Shared-Use Mobility Center
Jul 18, 2022
Revised March 2025 Photo by Vardan Papikyan on Unsplash Introduction Mobility pilot projects foster innovation in the transportation industry. Often these demonstration projects are designed so that a transit agency or private mobility company can test out and evaluate a new product or ser...
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Event Recap: CATA’s First Transit Knowledge Sharing Retreat in Erie, Pennsylvania
By Shared-Use Mobility Center
Jul 6, 2022
Revised March 2025 Introduction On June 15th and 16th, 2022, the Crawford Area Transportation Authority (CATA) hosted the first Transit Knowledge Sharing Retreat in Erie, Pennsylvania. The event was an opportunity for transit agencies, private mobility companies, non-profit organizations,...
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First MIC Workshop Event Recap
By Shared-Use Mobility Center
Jun 7, 2022
Revised March 2025 Introduction The Mobility Innovation Collaborative (MIC) is a Shared-Use Mobility Center (SUMC) program supported by the Federal Transit Administration that provides project development technical assistance to nearly 50 FTA grantees and shares lessons learned from innovativ...
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